JAPAN: Will Smith travels to Tokyo promoting his latest film, "The Pursuit of Happyness".

Hollywood's Will Smith offers Japanese fans and press the secrets of success according to "The Pursuit of Happyness." Hollywood star Will Smith held a press conference in Tokyo on Friday (January 19) to offer Japanese fans and press the secrets of success according to "the Pursuit of Happyness", the film he is promoting in Tokyo. The film is based on the memoirs of Chris Gardner, who struggled to raise his son in poverty during the recession-hit 1980s before hitting it big as a self-made millionaire and CEO of a Chicago-based brokerage firm. "You absolutely feel like you are going to die, but you keep going because your mind tells you that you are going to pass out long before your body is going to pass out." Will Smith said, explaining how he felt when he was struggling to succeed as an actor, in the same way Gardner was struggling to make a living in the movie he plays. Will Smith added it was Gardner's role as a father that also help him push through the very bad days. "(Christopher) Gardner was able to succeed in his life, by success I mean he was able to be the father that he wanted to be, in his life. because giving up was not an option. There were plenty of days that he could have given up but it just wasn't one of the choices that he had when he woke up every morning. He refused to allow giving up to be a choice. " Set in San Francisco, Gardner is a bright young salesman, who is struggling to make ends meet. Will Smith plays the role of Gardner as he lands an internship with a prestigious stock brokerage firm, but finds himself and his five-year-old son Christopher, played by Will Smith's own son Jaden Smith, evicted from their San Francisco apartment. 'The Pursuit of Happyness', opens across Japan on January 27.

ITN Source | January 25, 2007

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